A Curse So Dark and Lonely

This is one of my favorite The Beauty and The Beast retellings.

I'm so glad people recommended this one to me and gave me pushes to read it. I love this book.

I think this is the only The Beauty and The Beast retelling I've read where the heroine knows that she is there to help break a curse AND knows how to break it. I loved it. Truly, I loved everything about this book. Harper continued to surprise me at every turn and she had me falling in love with her. She is the greatest.
The romance is a slow burn. The progression of their feelings for each other felt natural and was written so well. BUT the romance isn't the main thing about this book which made this book even better! There is a war on the rise, there is discontent in the kingdom – something I always wondered about in The Beauty and The Beast: how does royalty just go missing and no one thinks anything of it, but then totally accepts them back in the end??

Look, this book is amazing and the ending has me D Y I N G for the sequel.